Man hit, killed by pickup truck in Sugar Grove: police

SUGAR GROVE, Ill. (WLS) -- A 35-year-old Oswego man died Monday afternoon, after a pickup truck hit him in west suburban Sugar Grove, police said.

The man was a passenger in a vehicle heading west on Route 56 from Interstate 88 just after 1 p.m., police said, but he was distressed and jumped from the moving car.

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The driver of that car stopped, and tried to keep him on the shoulder of the road, but he ran into traffic, and a 2012 Ford pickup truck pulling a trailer, driven by a 27-year-old from Warrenville, hit him, police said.

When police arrived, the Oswego man was lying in the middle of the roadway.

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Officers began CPR, but Sugar Grove fire crews determined he had died, police said.

His identity has not yet been released.

The westbound lanes of Route 56 from I-88 were closed for roughly four hours for an investigation.

Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call Sugar Grove police at 630-391-7250.